I first heard of Sweet Republic when Alton Brown named a dish there his favorite sweet he's ever eaten. That's big praise. The ice cream shop has these funky orange circles all over and about a dozen different artisan ice cream flavors. But what I really wanted was one of their specialties: The...

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When a place advertises snow cone margaritas, how do you walk past that without stopping?! Diego Pops is a flashy, funky bar + restaurant with an outdoor bar where we had a few drinks. The first of which was a watermelon lime snow cone margarita: WATERMELON LIME Don Julio Blanco, watermelon liqueur, triple...

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I had read that Citizen Public House was known for its drinks and has been recognized by Esquire, Thrillist, Zagat, and USA Today. It's located in a beautiful area of Scottsdale, which we walked around and took in the beauty of this area. It's different from the mountains of home but beautiful in...

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It seems like every region has a hot dog that it's known for. In Arizona, the Sonoran hot dog is king. The Sonoran hot dog is a style of hot dog popular in Tucson, Phoenix, and elsewhere in southern Arizona. It originated in Hermosillo, the capital of the Mexican state of Sonora, in the late 1980s. It consists of a hot dog that is wrapped...

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Pizzeria Bianco is known across the country - maybe even world - for helping to spearhead the wood-fired pizza movement. Sure, we hear that all over the place now. But these guys are the real deal. Chris, who won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Southwest in 2003, helped spawn a generation...

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